Supplied by Revera in partnership with Eagle Technologies SPARC as a Service VMs Under Your Command Presented By: Stephen Ponsford: Revera Limited Stephen Metcalfe: Eagle Technologies Limited
Introductions Introductions Revera’s service provider credentials Service overview Technical briefing Q&A session How to find out more?
Introductions Stephen Ponsford; Revera, Service Design Lead SPARCaaS Stephen Metcalfe; Eagle Technologies, Solutions Architect
High Integrity Computing Infrastructure Topics Current and Future Data Centres Multi Sourcing Strategy Commitment to Innovation
High Integrity Computing Infrastructure 5 Data Centres Nationwide; Auckland, Christchurch, Hamilton, Tawa and Trentham Wellington, 2 Data Centres for Cross Government; Tier 3 in Trentham Wellington and Tier 2+ in Albany, Auckland Expansion plans to build new Tier 3 Data Centre in Auckland
High Integrity Computing Infrastructure Multi Sourcing – “Sticking to our Knitting” Leveraging Revera’s Stack Alliance Specialist suppliers doing specialist tasks
High Integrity Computing Infrastructure Service Design Group established to focus innovation efforts Dedicated position of Innovation programme manager Up to version 5 of the service catalogue in 18 mths. All Revera staff have the opportunity to submit ideas to service design group Clients are our biggest driver of innovation
Service Overview Industry leading partnership with Eagle Technologies T4 Architecture in a multi-tenanted government or commercial configuration Highly available management cluster at dual sites Two offerings focussing on flexibility and performance Additional client level management options Complemented by additional Revera IaaS services including Storage and Backup
Service Goals Provide clients with SPARC computing infrastructure offering the latest architecture Client choice on how to support above hypervisor functions, VMs, LDOMs and Zones Ability for clients to scale up and down on SPARC compute requirements Architect a secure multi tenanted environment with SLAs for platform uptime
Service Diagram
Service Availability Government SPARC as a Service Available now in our Trentham Tier 3 Data Centre from the DIA Cross Government Catalogue Commercial SPARC as a Service To be offered based on demand, in current talks with 2 large commercial customers about their requirements
SPARCaaS Technical Dive Stephen Metcalfe Eagle Technologies
Functional Overview Provisioning of Oracle VM for SPARC (LDOM) Solaris 10, 11 and branded zones for Solaris 8 and 9 Secure isolation on dedicated CPU and memory Choice of shared virtual I/O or dedicated Resilience to single points of failure and rapid recovery Secure access to LDOM console Backup and recovery services
High Level Design
Service Option 1: SPARC VM Flexi Virtual I/O architecture - Scalable sizing with workload migration
Service Option 2: SPARC IO Max Direct I/O architecture - Fixed sizing - Maximum throughput
Security Overview Follows Oracle Whitepaper “Secure Deployment of Oracle VM Server for SPARC” Separate environments for Government and Commercial Clients within environments protected by network security measures including VLANs and Firewalls Management network separate from client networks and requires 2 factor authentication to access
Security Overview - Management Isolated management network Role based access via Oracle Enterprise Manager 12C 2 factor access required
Security Overview – Reduced Attack Surface VLAN and Firewall separation between client LDOMs Hypervisor based in firmware reducing attack surface
Q&A Session ?
How to find out more Enquire today at our NZOUG stand Contact Revera; 0508 REVERA ( ) You can also enquire with your existing Eagle Technologies account manager